For Lt. Col. Merritt, WWII only lasted 6 Hours: Enough Time For Him To Pick up a Victoria Cross at Dieppe
It is a fact that wouldn’t escape this Victoria Cross recipient as he spent the next 3 years in German captivity, but the truth is…
Shooting Down 7 Aircraft In One Day, This Marine Was Awarded The Medal Of Honor On His First Mission
Lieutenant James Swett wasn’t the only man to become an Ace in one day during the war and nor was he the only Ace to…
6 Facts About Admiral Yamamoto, Pearl Harbor Planner Who Believed Japan Would Lose
The man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was an unusual and contradictory figure. A man with peaceful international connections around…
Crossing the Rhine – In Pictures!
On March 24th 1945, near Xanten in Germany, the Rhine River was crossed in one of the biggest attacks launched in western-Europe. The attack consisted of…
Kampfgruppe Peiper & the 1st SS Leibstandarte Division (Watch)
Great Tank footage here, also some film of Peiper, his Blowtorch Battalion and the Leibstandarte 1st SS Panzer Division. Many men, soldiers, and supporters of…
The Philadelphia Experiment: The US Navy’s secret invisibility research program?
What kind of technologies do the governments and militaries of the world possess? What highly classified project have the public been blissfully unaware of? Anti-gravity?…
In the Pitch-Black Jungle of Guadalcanal, Marine John Basilone Would Decimate an Entire Japanese Regiment
Often described as the turning point for the Pacific in World War 2, the Battle of Guadalcanal represented the moment that Japanese expansion in the…
The Amazing SOE Operation To Kidnap General Heinrich Kreipe From Crete
The Special Operation Executive (SOE) in 1944, planned to conduct a daring mission in Crete. Their initial plan was to kidnap the German commander of…
What Happened To Gestapo Chief And Nazi War Criminal Heinrich Müller
A veil of mystery follows the name “Heinrich Muller” since his disappearance in 1945, after the fall of Berlin. Mueller was the head of Gestapo…
Top 10 German U-Boat Aces of WWII
The following is a list of the top ten U-Boat commanders in WW II. It is based upon the number of ships they sank and…
You’ve Seen The Pictures, Here Is The Video: 101st Airborne Award Ceremony Carentan June 1944
Watch the 101st Airborne Division Silver Star awards ceremony, which took place on 20 June 1944 at the Place De La République in Carentan, France.…
11 Amazing WWII Color Pictures Of The USS Enterprise – Big E
USS Enterprise (CV-6) was an Aircraft Carrier which was kKnown to the troops as the “Big E”. Enterprise was a Yorktown-class carrier, was launched in…